Taiwan SARS Outbreak
Grows More Serious

Several Patients Have Been Infected
Without Contact to Known Carrier

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan has joined the ranks of areas seriously affected by SARS, as it faces the prospect of the disease spreading outside of its hospitals and into the community at large.

Even as it begins to contain sudden outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, at two hospitals, one of Taiwan's top experts on infectious diseases said in an interview that the island already has several cases of the viral pneumonia in which patients appear to have been infected despite having no contact with a...